Aspiring inventors and northern Santa Barbara County creators have a new tool at their disposal, thanks largely to a $350,000 grant from the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office.
Last summer, Hancock College received the state funding to build a community-oriented makerspace — a creative, do-it-yourself space for people to gather, create, invent and learn.
Working in partnership with the Santa Maria Public Library and the Discovery Museum, Robert Mabry, associate professor of machining and manufacturing at Hancock and one of the shepherds of the makerspace initiative, said the project was one of 24 across the state to receive funding.
“We got the largest amount that was possible primarily because our proposal included a partnership with the…
